Amazon Silk May Be Coming To Mac And PC

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While we were all pretty impressed by what we saw out of the Amazon Silk browser yesterday, its plans for the future seem even more ambitious than the browser’s own offerings were. This comes our way following reports that a few new domain names have recently been purchased by the folks out at Amazon, pointing to some interesting new possibilities as future plans go.

Amazon, reportedly, bought up just over 500 domain names in the last few days, but three stuck out to those observing the list, including “amazonsilkforpc.com”, “amazonsilkformac.com” and even “amazonsilkforandroid.com”.

We know from following the Kindle Fire reports so far that, right now, Amazon Silk is strictly a Kindle Fire product. But considering that the Kindle Fire itself is easily outclassed, spec-wise, by most any computer out there, there’s nothing to say that Amazon Silk couldn’t be updated and modified to work with the very different hardware schemes of larger machines. And some of Silk’s features, like predictive browsing that notices you often go to one page after visiting another, might well make good additions to your browsing experience. And of course, Amazon’s likely looking at those stacks of user data with bated breath, hoping for a chance to use and / or sell forward.

This has caught the attention of privacy watchdog groups, though, and indeed, there have been some issues with privacy coming from supposedly encrypted data. Expanding that outward to your normal internet surfing session would likely raise concerns even farther than they already are, though Amazon says that, at least on the Kindle Fire level, you’ll be able to turn off all those extra heuristic systems. Though then, the question becomes why would you even bother to use Silk as opposed to anything else?

It’s an interesting debate with more than a few worrying points involved, so as is normally the case in something like this, I’ll leave it up to you. Do you guys like the thought of the Silk browser making it out to other platforms? Or do you think that all that data might leave you more vulnerable to hackers or at least marketing efforts? Either way, we want to hear from you, so head on down to the comments section and tell us what you think!